Risk

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Journaling Prompts

Have you engaged in physically or emotionally risky behavior in your life? Are there things you did as a teenager or young adult that you wouldn't repeat (verbally or do again, lol) today? What would you tell a young person now about your exploits and what you learned? Do you wish you could go back in time and change what you did or do you chalk it up to crazy lyouth?

Is there an adventure you'd like to undertake but are afraid of the risk involved? If there's a financial risk involved, is the financial fear greater than or less that the emotional fear of trying something new? Is it a new career, a business venture, a move, a relationship? What would you need to know to be able to take the risk, short of proof that things would work out?

Do you believe that in life, the risk you take is equal to the reward? Is there a mathematical relaionship between what you invest and what you get in return? Have you put everything on the line for something you truly wanted and then didn't have it turn out your way? How did you move though that life experience and move on, or if you haven't, what's stopping you?

Is it true that it's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all? Great love requires that we expose ourselves to risk - of loss, of the move from being in a couple to being alone if things don't work out, or of losing ones sense of self in the relationship. Is it always worth it, even without a happy ending?

What is it like for you to be in conflict with someone you care about? Are you the one who usually makes the first move to try to repair breaches, or does that feel too risky? What inner beliefs or strengths do you turn to in order to support your stretches and reaches? If you do attempt to repair a break, do you do it just to make peace or to truly fix the underlying problem in the relationship?